1 Waiting to board our flight from Seattle to Paris
2 Somewhere above northern Canada
3 Getting close to Paris
4 View from the balcony of our apartment on Rue de Medicis, across the street from Jardin du Luxembourg. This was pretty much the only direction in which could see anything else but trees.
5 Inside the apartment
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7 The Pantheon
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9 Focault's pendulum
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11 In the Pantheon's crypt
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15 Jardin du Luxembourg with the Palace in the background
16 Palais du Luxembourg. Former royal residence, now the meeting place for the French senate.
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19 A statue of libery in the Luxembourg Gardens!
20 Visiting the Eiffel tower on a Friday morning. The weather was cloudy and even rained close by, but eventually the sun came out.
21 Waiting to get on the elevator.
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23 Champs de Mars and Tour Montparnasse in the background, with rain clouds approaching. The tower has a large "Paris 2024 Olympics" symbol, and at the time of taking this picture Paris had not yet been awarded the 24 olympics.
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27 Pont d'Iena and the Place du Trocadero
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30 Elsa at the very top of the Eiffel tower
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33 Eiffel tower from the Trocadero.
34 Sainte Chapelle
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37 The Seine from Pont Saint-Michel
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39 Walking towards the Notre Dame
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41 Visiting Musee d'Orsay on a rainy day. It was the first Sunday of July, so entrance was free and the lines were long.
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45 van Gogh's "Starry night over the Rhone" seemed to be the "Mona Lisa" of the Orsay museum: lots of people trying to take pictures and selfies.
